Legislation forces archaeologists to rebury findsBones and skulls from ancient settlements will be reburied and lost to science under controversial legislation that threatens to cripple archeological research
Ian Sample, science correspondent The Guardian, Friday 4 February 2011

Human remains from Stonehenge and other ancient settlements will be reburied and lost to science under legislation that threatens to cripple research into the history of humans in Britain, a group of leading archaeologists says today.

The dispute centres on legislation introduced by the Ministry of Justice in 2008 which requires all human remains excavated at digs in England and Wales to be reburied within two years, regardless of their age. The decision, which amounts to a reinterpretation of law previously administered by the Home Office, means scientists have too little time to study bones and other human remains of national and cultural significance, the academics say.

"Your current requirement that all archaeologically excavated human remains should be reburied, whether after a standard period of two years or a further special extension, is contrary to fundamental principles of archaeological and scientific research and of museum practice," they write. Signatories include Chris Stringer, head of human origins at the Natural History Museum in London; Stephen Shennan, director of University College London's archaeology institute; and Helena Hamerow, head of archaeology at Oxford University.

The ruling applies to any pieces of bone uncovered at around 400 dig sites, including the remains of 60 or so bodies found at Stonehenge in 2008 that date back to 3,000BC. Archaeologists have been granted a temporary extension to give them more time, but ultimately the bones will have to be returned to the ground.

The arrangements, the archaeologists say, may result in the squandering of future discoveries at sites such as Happisburgh in Norfolk, where excavations are continuing after the discovery of stone tools made by early humans 950,000 years ago.

"If human remains were found at Happisburgh they would be the oldest human fossils in northern Europe and the first indication of what this species was. Under the current practice of the law those remains would have to be reburied and effectively destroyed," said Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology. "This applies to everything. If we were to find a Neanderthal fossil or a Roman skeleton, it would all have to be reburied."

Prior to 2008, guidelines allowed for the proper curation and study of bones of sufficient age and historical interest, while the Burial Act 1857 applied to more recent remains, such as those exhumed from the St Pancras Old Church cemetery to build the London Eurostar train terminal. The Ministry of Justice assured archaeologists two years ago that the ruling was an interim measure, but has so far failed to revise its decision.

Mike Parker Pearson, an archaeologist at Sheffield University, said: "Archaeologists have been extremely patient because we were led to believe the ministry was sorting out this problem, but we feel that we cannot wait any longer.

"Whereas we have museum collections of ancient and prehistoric human remains that have been dug up in some cases hundreds of years ago, we are about to lose all of the well-excavated, well-documented skeletal material that has been excavated since 2008," he added.

The ministry has no guidelines on where or how remains should be reburied, or on what records should be kept.

Removing the need to rebury ancient human remains within two years would give archaeologists the option to study excavated bones with new scientific techniques that constantly emerge from research laboratories, the letter says.

Remains from dozens of sites are immediately at risk of reburial, including eight bronze and iron age bodies found at Clay Farm in Cambridgeshire, 50 or so skeletons from the cemetery of a medieval hospital in Bawtry, South Yorkshire, and a remarkable Viking mass burial site excavated during work on the Weymouth relief road in 2009.

"The government is asking us to destroy important materials, not preserve them for future generations, a situation that is against its own heritage policies, contra to the public will and not in the interests of the general public at large," said Duncan Sayer, an archaeologist at the University of Central Lancashire.

"This is a law that was not designed for archaeology and is doing a considerable amount of damage, and because of it we may prevent people in the future from ever being able to explore their past because we have destroyed it."

[Excerpted] Reports of damage to one of the few ancient Egyptian tombs devoted solely to a woman have tempered the news that most of Egypt's priceless antiquities have escaped damage and that teams of foreign archaeologists are safe amid widespread protests against the regime led by Hosni Mubarak.

One archaeologist present at the famous cemetery of Saqqara, south of Cairo, said that as many as 200 looters were digging for treasure in the area this past weekend before police resecured the area. The excavator, who requested anonymity, added that the tomb of Maya, the wet nurse of King Tutankhamun, was "completely destroyed." Another Western archaeologist said, "We still don't know the extent of the damage, but things have been bad and out of control."

The good news is that other major archaeological sites appear to be quiet - at the moment. But as of Saturday "all foreign expeditions were ordered to halt work and leave." Leave? Leave the country? Leave the sites but stay in the country? If all is quiet, why should they stop working and leave? This sounds very suspicious to me.

[Excerpted]What concerns the Egyptologists I spoke to, however, is the funerary site of Saqqara, which suffered a 36-hour gap in security before the army moved in around the site. Hawass insists that no looting took place. Some locks on tombs were broken, but the intruders caused no damage inside nor stole anything. "If anything had happened it would have been a disaster," he said.

Several archaeologists with contacts at Saqqara, who requested anonymity, confirmed this assessment. But they added that storage facilities were robbed, something the Supreme Council of Antiquities has denied. Inspectors, sources said, are evaluating the damage to the site with the army because the looters might be armed. The site is now closed to the public.

I spoke to an archaeologist at the French mission, who works at Saqqara and was in Cairo. "We've heard a lot of conflicting stories and many things on the Internet are wrong," he told me, based on calls to his Egyptian counterparts. "People were saying that my site in south Saqqara was destroyed, but in reality only two tents were damaged. We just have to wait and see, because now we have orders to stay out. On Sunday, looters were shooting at inspectors, who were very brave. Looting in Saqqara is nothing new, but before the army arrived, the site was left unguarded."

Friday, February 4, 2011

This article - okay - I'm retracting my first statement, which was THIS ARTICLE IS A JOKE. Forget I wrote that. Instead, I'm just writing "Duh!"

Gimbutas depicted such symbols in her many books on "Old European" culture that are twice as old as this one beginning - what - 30 years ago! Those "zig-zags" - I call them "M's" and "W's" - wave patterns, are extremely ancient, dating back to at least 25,000 BCE and are found in many places in Europe; the symbols travel the width and breath of the Old World across time, and are evidence in the art work of Native Americans too. The most likely explanation is not independent invention by relocating populations but that the extremely ancient patterns and symbols travelled with the people to the New World.

What's the symbol for the primal waters of the deep in many ancient cultures in their later writing - DUH! Wavy lines! One that immediately comes to mind is "n-n" -- pronounced something like "nuuuun" in ancient Egyptian, drawn something like vvvv or wwww, -- in heiroglyphics. It meant WATER, more importantly, the very first waters out of which the first mound of earth (the black dirt) arose, from which all things on earth were then created. From the ancient waters of the deep came the first earth, and from the first earth all things of creation were made.

I don't have my notes/research from many years in front of me, so I'm working from memory, but these forms (wwww's and vvvvv's - zig-zags) are well documented by many researchers, not just Gimbutas. In many extremely early instances they were associated with carvings of "bird" or "eye" goddesses. So making a big hoo-ha about this relatively young carving on an antler is, to my way of thinking, way out of proportion. It is nice to see that the work of the early pioneers is being confirmed by modern-day discoveries, but they are adding nothing new to the subject and give scant credit to the work upon which they are building. That's just not right.

From Discovery NewsStone Age Fertility Ritual Object Found
Etchings on a carved elk antler dating to nearly 11,000 years ago, may have been used to promote fertility
By Jennifer Vargas
February 4, 2011

A Stone Age-era artifact carved with multiple zigzags and what is likely a woman with spread legs suggests that fertility rituals may have been important to early Europeans, according to new research.

The object, which will be documented in the March issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, is made out of a large elk antler and has been radiocarbon dated to about 10,900 years ago.

"The ornament is composed of groups of zigzag lines and a human representation, probably a woman with spread legs with a short zigzag nearby," lead author Tomasz Płonka told Discovery News. "The woman may be nude, but the geometrical style of representation does not allow us to answer (this question)."

Płonka, a University of Wroclaw archaeologist, and his colleagues analyzed the object, unearthed by a farmer at Swidwin, Poland.

At first the scientists believed the geometrical figure carved onto the antler could have been either the mentioned woman, or a nude man raising his arms. Measurements to determine the ratio of the stick figure limbs, in addition to comparisons with other early human representations, lead the researchers to support the woman interpretation. [Turn it one way, it's a man with a long penis! Turn it the other way, it's a woman with raised legs! Neolithic optical illusion, all within an economical sketch of - how's that for pushing an art form back!]

Zigzags are very popular motifs on artifacts from many cultures throughout the world, with many possible meanings, but Płonka said, "I think our zigzag lines are connected with water and life symbolism." [Gee! Ya think?]

I keep thinking about the new knowledge we will have about the movement of people and languages and cultures 25 years from now, as our scientific tools -- and our applications of those tools to existing archaeological evidence -- are re-applied to that existing evidence (as long as it does not mysteriously disappear), and new forensic techniques utilizing knowledge of multiple cross-specialities that we can't even imagine in 2011 -- come to be and are also applied to that existing evidence. And that doesn't even begin to address what new evidence in archaeolgy, linguistics, paleo-botany, etc. etc. may come to light utilizing 21st century techniques of uncovering and analyzing ancient settlements, mathematical applications of computer algorithms to deciphering unknown languages and written symbols, etc. etc. Oh - and advances in DNA analysis, too! LOL! I'll be a little old bitchy lady with a cane (and knows how to use it), still spry 25 years from now. I don't intend to croak until I'm at least 100, and I envision a whole brave new world in 2051 and after, for my nieces and nephews and their descendants. Yep, it won't seem at all strange then, to acknowledge that ancestors of Native Americans (from east and west) roamed Canada, the USA, Central America and South America from 50,000 BCE and maybe even before then.

From Science DailyGenetic Study Uncovers New Path to Polynesia
ScienceDaily (Feb. 3, 2011) — Surprising new evidence which overturns current theories of how humans colonised the Pacific has been discovered by scientists at the University of Leeds, UK
﻿﻿

The islands of Polynesia were first inhabited around 3,000 years ago, but where these people came from has long been a hot topic of debate amongst scientists. The most commonly accepted view, based on archaeological and linguistic evidence as well as genetic studies, is that Pacific islanders were the latter part of a migration south and eastwards from Taiwan which began around 4,000 years ago.

But the Leeds research -- published February 3 in The American Journal of Human Genetics -- has found that the link to Taiwan does not stand up to scrutiny. In fact, the DNA of current Polynesians can be traced back to migrants from the Asian mainland who had already settled in islands close to New Guinea some 6-8,000 years ago.

The type of DNA extracted and analysed in this kind of study is that stored in the cell's mitochondria. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is passed down the maternal line, providing a record of inheritance which goes back thousands of years. The scientists look for genetic signatures which enable them to classify the DNA into different lineages and then use a 'molecular clock' to date when these lineages moved into different parts of the world.

Lead researcher, Professor Martin Richards, explains: "Most previous studies looked at a small piece of mtDNA, but for this research we studied 157 complete mitochondrial genomes in addition to smaller samples from over 4,750 people from across Southeast Asia and Polynesia. We also reworked our dating techniques to significantly reduce the margin of error. This means we can be confident that the Polynesian population -- at least on the female side -- came from people who arrived in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea thousands of years before the supposed migration from Taiwan took place."

Nevertheless, most linguists maintain that the Polynesian languages are part of the Austronesian language family which originates in Taiwan. And most archaeologists see evidence for a Southeast Asian influence on the appearance of the Lapita culture in the Bismarck Archipelago around 3,500 years ago. Characterised by distinctive dentate stamped ceramics and obsidian tools, Lapita is also a marker for the earliest settlers of Polynesia.

Professor Richards and co-researcher Dr Pedro Soares (now at the University of Porto), argue that the linguistic and cultural connections are due to smaller migratory movements from Taiwan that did not leave any substantial genetic impact on the pre-existing population.

"Although our results throw out the likelihood of any maternal ancestry in Taiwan for the Polynesians, they don't preclude the possibility of a Taiwanese linguistic or cultural influence on the Bismarck Archipelago at that time," explains Professor Richards. "In fact, some minor mitochondrial lineages back up this idea. It seems likely there was a 'voyaging corridor' between the islands of Southeast Asia and the Bismarck Archipelago carrying maritime traders who brought their language and artefacts and perhaps helped to create the impetus for the migration into the Pacific.

"Our study of the mtDNA evidence shows the interactions between the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific was far more complex than previous accounts tended to suggest and it paves the way for new theories of the spread of Austronesian languages."

The study, which involved researchers from the UK, Taiwan and Australia, was mainly funded by the British Academy, the Bradshaw Foundation and the European Union.

It's the dream of any antique collector: You impulsively spend a few bucks on a trinket at an estate sale or an antiques store, and later discover that it's worth more than what you paid for it. Much more.

And that's pretty much the dream that came true for a 79-year-old British retired worker from the Cadbury chocolate factory, who recently walked into an auction house with a near-perfect Ming vase in a cardboard box.

It's unknown how the man, who wanted the press to refrain from publishing his name, came into possession of the rare vase, but staffers at Duke's—the Dorchester auction house that took it in—were astounded by the "spectacular find."

"When my colleague initially showed me what had arrived in a cardboard box I could not believe my eyes," Guy Schwinge of Duke's told the Guardian. "The vase is in perfect condition, and it is amazing to think that it has survived unscathed for almost six hundred years."

The BBC reported that the vase, which stands 11.5 inches tall, is the largest ever found of a rare group of early Ming "moonflasks" whose production dates somewhere between the years 1403 and 1424. That means it was manufactured during the reign of an emperor named Yongle; its distinctive features—such as the small loop handles—appear to be influenced by Islamic design.

Because the vase originates from China but shows the influence of Middle Eastern craftsmanship, auctioneers at Duke's expect the vase to draw the bids of wealthy collectors from both Asian and the Arab worlds. The auction is scheduled for May, and the item is expected to fetch at least a million pounds, or roughly $1.6 million U.S. dollars.

Fox - center animal facing to the left (tail to the right), lower left.

﻿ [Excerpted] Part of a 1,500-year-old Byzantine church, the mosaic floor was decorated with images of lions, foxes, fish and peacocks.

The excavation, conducted on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority was necessary due to the site being the target of robbers, trying to access its underground tunnels.

The ruins are built on top of another structure which is believed to have been in use in Roman times. Its underground tunnels were thought to have been used by Jewish rebels around the 2nd century AD. Horbat Midras is believed to be the site of a large Jewish settlement that dates from the Second Temple period until its destruction during the Bar Kokhba uprising in 135 CE.

The later basilica comprises a large flagstone courtyard from which worshippers passed into a corridor. Entering into the nave there were eight breathtaking marble columns that bore magnificent capitals which were imported from Turkey.

For the past month the Israel Antiquities Authority has been engaged in exposing the magnificent structure, unravelling its secrets and preserving the mosaic floors.

I would be very interested to read the possible interpretation of fox images being present inside what I assume is an Orthodox Christian church!

The "Beauty of Xiaohe". Image from Penn Current.
Buried circa 1800 BCE, one of approximately
500 mummies excavated in the Tarim Basin
over the past 40 years.

...that it had agreed to be exhibited in the ground-breaking exhibition. No explanation was given for their demands. The host museum (the Penn, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) complied with the demands and have withdrawn two Tarim Basin mummies from the exhibit (they would have been a HUGE draw), along with some 100 rare artifacts never before seen outside of China. Evidently China has thrown another hissy fit for reasons that only it knows (but we can make some educated surmises). The Penn people aren't talking. What was to be a block-buster exhibit that presold thousands of tickets will now have that money refunded and a much reduced exhibit, with photos of the missing mummies and artifacts, offered instead. The reduced exhibit will be open to all visitors ot the museum who pay its general admission. The exhibit - with mummies and artifacts - has already been viewed at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California and the Houston Museum of Natural Science before the final exhibit at the Penn Museum.

Some possible hints about why the artifacts and mummies were pulled at the last second by the Chinese government (who conveniently turn blind eyes to the concepts of "contract" and "rule of law") may be found in this article at the Los Angeles Times:

This is the B Tournament for Young Masters (Women) standings after R6:

№

Name

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Total

Place

1

Fominykh, Maria

1/2

0

0

1/2

0

0

1

2

Girya, Olga

1/2

1/2

0

1/2

1

1/2

3

3

Kosteniuk, Alexandra

1

1/2

1

1

0

1

4,5

4

Gunina, Valentina

1

1

0

0

1

1

4

5

Galoyan, Lilit

1/2

1/2

1/2

0

1

1/2

3

6

Zawadzka, Jolanta

1

1/2

0

0

1/2

1/2

2,5

7

Munguntuul, Batkhuyag

1

1

1

1

1

0

5

8

Ambartsumova, Karina

0

0

0

1

0

0

1

9

Kashlinskaya, Alina

0

1

0

1/2

1/2

0

2

10

Zhao Xue

1

1/2

0

1/2

1

1

4

GM Alexandra Kosteniuk is in 2nd place with 4.5 with 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, half point behind current leader Batkhuay Munguntuul, who has 5 wins and 1 loss! The ladies are certainly playing fighting chess. Zhao Xue is in 3rd place with 4.0 with 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss! You go, girls!

Moscow Open 2011 F

Rank after round 6

Rank

SNo.

Name

Rtg

FED

Pts

BH.

vict

Fide

W-We

1

11

WIM

Charochkina Daria

2314

RUS

6

22S

6

21

2,10

2

14

WGM

Nemcova Katerina

2289

CZE

5

25

5

19

0,63

3

16

WGM

Mirzoeva Elmira

2216

RUS

5

22S

4

19

1,43

4

2

IM

Bodnaruk Anastasia

2425

RUS

5

22

5

17

-0,11

5

8

WGM

Pourkashiyan Atousa

2373

IRI

5

21S

4

18S

0,08

6

12

WIM

Severiukhina Zoja

2312

RUS

5

20S

5

16

0,10

7

1

IM

Turova Irina

2434

RUS

4S

25

4

18S

-0,31

8

29

WFM

Suslova Alena

2180

RUS

4S

25

4

17

1,28

9

4

WGM

Savina Anastasia

2397

RUS

4S

23S

4

17S

-0,51

10

23

WFM

Berdychevaskaya Natasha

2193

RUS

4S

21

4

17S

0,60

11

5

WGM

Kovanova Baira

2391

RUS

4S

21

4

16

-0,50

12

7

WGM

Nebolsina Vera

2388

RUS

4S

20S

4

15S

-0,54

13

17

WIM

Ghader Pour Shayesteh

2212

IRI

4S

20

4

15S

0,55

14

13

WGM

Daulyte Deimante

2293

LTU

4S

20

4

14

-0,34

15

6

WGM

Stepovaia Tatiana

2389

RUS

4S

17S

4

14

-0,77

16

20

Drozdova Dina

2203

RUS

4S

17

3

15S

0,16

17

35

WFM

Verko Tatiana

2147

KAZ

4

22

4

16

0,66

18

33

WFM

Baraeva Marina

2152

RUS

4

21S

3

16S

0,97

19

24

WFM

Bezgodova Maria

2190

RUS

4

21

4

16

0,24

20

50

Ainutdinova Yekaterina

2073

KAZ

4

20S

4

14

1,37

21

57

Severina Maria

2032

RUS

4

20S

3

14S

1,88

22

25

WFM

Petrukhina Irina

2190

RUS

4

20

4

14

-0,14

23

28

WFM

Shulakova Svetlana

2180

RUS

4

20

3

15

-0,02

24

18

WIM

Nakhbayeva Guliskhan

2209

KAZ

4

19S

4

15

-0,31

46

Zizlova Sofia

2085

RUS

4

19S

4

15

1,33

26

39

WFM

Kineva Ekaterina

2120

RUS

4

19

4

15

0,57

27

9

FM

Pustovoitova Daria

2331

RUS

4

19

4

14

-1,02

19

WGM

Shaydullina Sandugach

2207

RUS

4

19

4

14

-0,46

29

21

WFM

Baraeva Irina

2201

RUS

4

19

3

13S

-0,53

30

38

WIM

Krasenkova Ilena

2121

RUS

4

19

3

13

-0,23

31

36

WFM

Semenova Elena

2139

RUS

4

18S

4

14

0,08

32

3

IM

Romanko Marina

2404

RUS

4

18

3

12S

-0,51

33

72

Kostitsina Liubov

1930

RUS

4

17S

4

11

1,79

34

34

Schepetkova Margarita

2148

RUS

4

14

3

11

-1,00

35

40

WFM

Kharmunova Nadejda

2118

RUS

3S

24S

2

15S

1,16

36

71

Makarenko Alexandra

1931

RUS

3S

24S

2

14

2,50

37

41

WFM

Bivol Alina

2114

RUS

3S

23S

3

16S

1,29

38

43

WFM

Gorozhankina Julia

2088

RUS

3S

22

3

13S

0,88

39

31

WFM

Gvanceladze Anna

2163

RUS

3S

21S

3

15

0,35

40

90

Mestnikova Tuyara

1852

RUS

3S

18S

3

11

2,34

41

26

WFM

Travkina Anastasia

2189

RUS

3S

18S

2

14

-0,87

42

15

WGM

Doluhanova Evgeniya

2267

UKR

3S

18

3

13

-1,39

43

45

WFM

Korchagina Viktoria

2086

RUS

3S

18

3

12

0,03

44

30

WFM

Eryshkanova Anastasiya

2168

RUS

3S

17

2

12S

-1,12

45

58

Tereshechkina Maya

2026

RUS

3S

16S

3

12S

-0,32

46

22

Bezgodova Svetlana

2195

RUS

3S

15S

3

10

-1,40

47

32

WIM

Sazonova Elena N

2162

RUS

3S

14S

3

10

-1,42

48

44

WFM

Khropova Larisa

2087

RUS

3

24S

3

13

0,67

49

53

Pershina Elena

2053

RUS

3

23S

3

15

0,65

50

91

WCM

Egorova Ayyyna

1847

RUS

3

22

3

13

1,99

51

51

Frolova Ekaterina

2067

RUS

3

21

3

13

0,07

52

48

WFM

Kostrikina Anna

2079

RUS

3

21

3

12

-0,03

53

88

Rodionova Daria

1856

RUS

3

20S

3

12

1,19

54

59

Avdeyeva Viktoriya

2020

AZE

3

20S

2

13

0,68

55

42

WFM

Tsepennikova Tatyana

2104

RUS

3

20S

2

12

-0,89

56

87

WFM

Vasenina Anna

1857

RUS

3

20S

2

10S

1,11

57

69

WFM

Abdumalik Zhansaya

1938

KAZ

3

20S

2

9S

0,82

58

49

Markelova Lubov

2076

RUS

3

20

2

11S

-0,67

59

54

Sviridova Vlada

2052

RUS

3

19S

2

12S

-0,22

60

Smirnova Ekaterina

2018

RUS

3

19S

2

12S

-0,09

61

115

Manabayeva Aiya

0

KAZ

3

18S

2

12S

62

10

WGM

Levushkina Elena

2318

GER

3

18S

2

11

-2,34

63

76

WFM

Kisteneva Liza

1911

RUS

3

18S

2

9S

0,54

64

37

Yakupova Aysyla

2132

RUS

3

18

3

11

-1,27

65

64

Trapeznikova Darya

1991

RUS

3

18

3

9

-0,02

81

Maidanova Irina

1871

RUS

3

18

3

9

-0,59

67

75

Medvedeva Anna

1921

RUS

3

17S

3

10

0,49

68

74

Skakun Valentina

1925

RUS

3

17S

3

9

0,04

69

27

WIM

Butuc Maria

2188

RUS

3

17

2

12

-1,66

70

79

Budueva Kristina

1889

RUS

3

16S

3

9

0,79

71

63

Khobotova Olesia

1991

RUS

3

16S

3

7

-1,16

72

52

Maslova Elena

2065

RUS

3

16

3

11

-0,97

73

78

Bauyrzhan Arnash

1900

KAZ

3

16

3

9

-0,21

74

86

Paramzina Anastasya

1860

RUS

3

14S

3

8

1,16

75

55

WFM

Matsenko Elena

2039

RUS

3

14

3

10

-0,73

76

94

Aseeva Anastasia

1807

RUS

3

13S

3

7

0,62

77

73

WCM

Dordzhieva Dinara

1929

RUS

2S

21

2

10

0,56

78

62

WFM

Styazhkina Anna

1999

RUS

2S

20

2

9

-0,05

79

70

Achinova Giliana

1936

RUS

2S

19S

2

8S

-0,20

80

65

Mukhametgaleeva Railia

1983

RUS

2S

19

2

9

0,27

81

68

Sysoykina Lidia

1943

RUS

2S

17S

2

9

0,01

82

101

Mokshanova Elizaveta

1711

RUS

2S

17S

1

7S

1,44

83

61

WFM

Trotsenko Evgenia

2001

RUS

2S

16S

2

9S

-0,75

84

120

Uskova Anna

0

RUS

2S

16S

2

9

85

93

Chadaeva Tatiana

1835

RUS

2S

16S

2

8

0,80

86

80

Sazonova Anastasia

1886

RUS

2S

15

2

7S

0,09

87

117

Skorobogatova Olga

0

RUS

2S

13

2

6S

88

113

WCM

Obolentseva Alexandra

0

RUS

2S

13

2

6

89

67

Anu Bayar

1957

MGL

2

21

2

9

-0,25

90

119

Temirbieva Liana

0

RUS

2

18S

2

8

91

114

Badzgaradze Elena

0

RUS

2

18

2

9

92

98

Morozova Ulia

1724

RUS

2

18

2

7

0,84

93

92

Frantsuzova Lyudmila

1839

RUS

2

17

2

6

-0,49

94

103

Saikhanzaya Ganbaatar

1704

MGL

2

16S

2

7

0,17

95

83

Arnatskaya Zoya

1867

RUS

2

16S

2

6

-0,26

96

66

WFM

Kalashnikova Larisa

1971

RUS

2

16

1

6

-1,53

97

105

Turygina Irina

1650

RUS

2

15

2

5

0,65

98

85

Ivanova Karina

1865

RUS

2

14S

2

7

-0,63

99

89

Zasypkina Evgenia

1855

RUS

2

14S

2

5

-0,93

100

99

Burmistrova Alena

1720

RUS

2

14S

2

4

-0,28

101

77

Lisachenko Natalia

1903

RUS

2

14

2

6

-1,44

102

118

Sprints Eleonora

0

RUS

2

13S

1

5S

103

82

Semenova Anastasia

1870

RUS

2

13

2

6

-0,08

104

97

Sigua Irina

1731

RUS

2

13

2

5

-0,19

105

122

Vasilieva Aisena

0

RUS

2

12

2

5

106

109

Loginova Tatiana

1599

RUS

2

10

2

3

0,50

107

116

Polozova Marina

0

RUS

1S

18

1

7S

108

84

Butneva Larisa

1867

RUS

1S

18

1

6

-0,73

109

95

Shmyreva Tatiana

1806

RUS

1S

16S

1

5

-0,36

110

102

Anfinogenova Anastasiya

1708

RUS

1S

14S

1

4S

-0,25

111

104

Terentieva Alena

1700

RUS

1S

12

0

4S

-0,33

112

47

WFM

Kiparenko Galina

2079

RUS

1S

11S

1

2S

-1,61

113

121

Vasilchuk Tatiana

0

RUS

1S

11

1

3

114

56

Akopova Anna

2039

RUS

1

17S

1

6

115

108

Vasiukova Renata D

1600

RUS

1

15

1

3

0,11

116

100

Vanchikova Dulma

1719

RUS

1

14

1

3

-0,48

117

96

Vasiukova Ekaterina

1746

RUS

1

14

0

3S

-1,00

118

110

Afanasieva Elena

1592

RUS

1

13S

0

2

-1,05

119

107

Sotiriadou Ioanna

1607

GRE

1

13

0

1

-0,40

120

111

Artemenko Rimma

1566

RUS

1

12S

0

3

-0,83

121

112

Stanetskaya Galina

1531

RUS

1

11S

1

3

-0,16

122

106

Cherniavskaya Klara

1645

RUS

0

14S

0

0

-1,68

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I'm one of the founders of Goddesschess, which went online May 6, 1999. I earned an under-graduate degree in history and economics going to college part-time nights, weekends and summer school while working full-time, and went on to earn a post-graduate degree (J.D.) I love the challenge of research, and spend my spare time reading and writing about my favorite subjects, travelling and working in my gardens. My family and my friends are most important in my life. For the second half of my life, I'm focusing on "doable" things to help local chess initiatives, starting in my own home town. And I'm experiencing a sort of personal "Renaissance" that is leaving me rather breathless...